Radar's & Rouge Nukes

China's radar detects an anomaly coming from the middle east. It seems to be incoming from India. China, in panic mode has 3 minutes to launch a
counter strike, they launch missiles to destroy the incoming threat. America detects this from Japan, they launch a strike on China thinking they are
launching an attack. China fires back. A nuclear weapon is used on American bases in Japan.

What would happen if a rouge anomaly is detected on radar?? I wrote that little scenario to get you brain working haha I don't know if that would
happen. But say China's radars go crazy, would they launch a counter strike or would they wait it out and see??

Remember that Russian guy who saved us from WW3?? Something like that..

that scenario doesn't even make sense. did you forget 9/11. america's defenses are so unorganized, that if russia knew this during the eighties
they could have wiped america off the map with little casualties.

no one cares or knows what to do during emergencies in america. look at katrina, 9/11, california wild fires, texas tornadoes and mississippi
floods.

Originally posted by randomname
that scenario doesn't even make sense. did you forget 9/11. america's defenses are so unorganized, that if russia knew this during the eighties
they could have wiped america off the map with little casualties.

no one cares or knows what to do during emergencies in america. look at katrina, 9/11, california wild fires, texas tornadoes and mississippi
floods.

edit on 9-5-2011 by randomname because: (no reason given)

Some speculate that 9\11 was a staged event focusing on mass hysteria and confusion...... there's a reason why everything looked so chaotic. Also,
September 11th was a sneak attack with rogue airline jets. There's no radar for terrorists hijacking a plane.......not that we know of.

We must remember that a they were simulating a "hijacked plane" on 9/11, so the first plane you could mark off as accident by them not seeing it
sooner. But the other 3 planes should have been shot down as soon as the first plane crashed.

ahh glad it was you and not me this time.... sometimes I feel like a spelling Nazi here but I really don't understand why there are so many
misspellings.... does no one either read, proofread, or have spell checker anymore? lol
The truth about accidental war is this.... we have come close many, many times without the public's knowledge. And the flip side to that is how
easy it would be to have a sneak attack on us via cruise missile to DC, a very short distance from the sea. How to react without over-reacting, in
time. An excellent older book and movie (the original with Henry Fonda among many other stars of the time) about accidental war is Fail Safe, if you
want a riveting read or viewing.

I have participated in an insurance companys "think tank" where we looked at surviving a nuclear terrorist blast during the year 2000 Olympics in
Sydney. We asked questions and proposed solutions about how we would service the insured while remaining viable as a company, how would we relocate
and restore our data centres & etc.

We basically went through a number of worst case scenarios and looked for weaknesses and "single points of failure" in existing systems.

I imagine that the defence forces/FEMA/CDC/Homeland Security/whomever do this sort of disaster recovery planning (DRP) all the time as it is their
mandate to ensure safety of the public and defend the status quo.

That being said, human greed often pushes us to take unacceptable risks with irreplaceable assets (human lives) and this is always a constant danger.

I know you've replied to other posters and no i don't think your an idiot either, but i came onto this thread purely because i thought maybe a
red/rouge nuke was a term for a nuke that i was unfamiliar with.

I would advise the use of firefox browser, it has spellchecker built-in, makes life a whole lot easier.

As for rogue nukes, well it would be the LAST course of action for any nation to re-act with a counter-strike.

If a single nuke comes in it would be shot down, if that was unsuccessful, then a single detonation would have to be absorbed by which-ever nation it
struck, retaliation may only occur by conventional highly targeted means.

Only in the case of a massive multiple launch would an immediate counterstrike be considered.

All of these scenario's have been war-gamed out by the super-powers, it would actually be very difficult, if not impossible to trigger an all-out
nuclear exchange.

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